Check This Out
Those who criticize should also praise when it’s deserved. Good things come to those who wait. And what follows also proves the unstated contention in Rogues’ Gallery that great institutions aren’t the same as the sometimes-flawed transients who run them. Twenty-eight months ago, after I finished writing that book, I gave a copy of a […]
DeLucie Show
How do you get a reservation to sit beneath the Basquiat at John DeLucie‘s The Lion? My latest column in Crain’s New York Business, “Some days, you eat The Lion,” gives some tips —but not the VIP phone number.
The New Yorker vs. New Yorkers?
The New Yorker’s John Cassidy put up a blog post on Wednesday that echoes some of my arguments in Crain’s earlier in the week against Mayor Bloomberg and DOT Commish Janette Sadik-Khan‘s steamroller approach to city governance. City Hall, Cassidy writes, “sometimes seems intent on turning New York into Amsterdam, or perhaps Beijing.” Or Wisconsin, […]
Sadik-Khan-Do
I didn’t like Janette Sadik-Khan before she started her campaign of stealth closings of streets (like Broadway, above) and lanes. Her Department of Transportation’s contempt for mere citizens (i.e. folks without private planes to whisk them away from New York or chauffeured SUVs with sirens and flashing lights to bull their way through traffic jams) […]
Model redux. Will supermodels come back, too?
Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, my 1995 best-seller, is being re-released in September by It Books at HarperCollins as part of its IconIt series of pop culture classics. It will include a new chapter (the third update since its initial release) covering the years 2000 to the present.
740 Stories
You can’t keep a good building down (or out of the news), I guess. This weekend’s New York Times includes a story on outer borough versions of the fabled 740 Park, and two more on apartment owners: libertarian billionaire David Koch and hedge fund honcho David Ganek. It’s a 740 party!
Galliano’s Better Days
Back in 1987, some of the, er, older folks at the New York Times were infuriated when I profiled John Galliano on the cover of what was then called the Living section, asking why a nobody was so anointed. Eerily, in light of recent events, the story opens where I met Galliano in 1985, at […]
Badger State of Mind
My new column for Crain’s New York Business asks if our Boston-born mayor isn’t trying to turn New York City into Milwaukee.
Rolex vs. Timex
Here’s a fascinating piece on print by Wilson Quarterly editor Steven Lagerfeld.
A Capital observation
I’ve just found a newish blog to bookmark called Capital New York, thanks to its co-founder and editor Tom McGeveran‘s post on Elizabeth Spiers‘ ascension to editor of the New York Observer. At the risk of offending the Spiers-chuckers out there, I wholeheartedly agree with McGeveran. I first noticed her shortly after Gawker debuted back […]